Tara Knight is a Program Manager at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include health-related quality of life, treatment adherence, and the use of behavioral economics to change patient and provider behavior.

Prior to joining the Schaeffer Center, she supported research projects in the School of Pharmacy's Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, and has been a part of the USC family for almost 15 years. She received her PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.